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Reading

Choose a text number. Its questions will appear on its own page.

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How to solve: ReadingA text with several questions: main idea, details, word meaning and inference.

What it tests

Careful reading: finding the main idea, locating details, understanding a word from its context and drawing conclusions the text supports.

In the exam: part I, 10 tasks.

Step by step

  1. Read the questions first, so you know what to look for.
  2. Skim the whole text once for its topic and the author's purpose.
  3. For each question find the exact place in the text (line numbers help) and read the sentence before and after it.
  4. Choose the option that says the same thing in other words — not the one that copies the most words.
  5. For “main idea” questions pick the option that covers the whole text, not one paragraph.

Watch out for

  • An option that is true in real life but not stated in the text.
  • An option that repeats words from the text but changes the meaning (“always” instead of “often”, wrong date or person).
  • A detail that is correct but too narrow for a “main idea” question.

Example

Text: “It took 800 men seven years to build the bridge.” — The bridge was built in: a) one year b) seven years c) 800 days

b) The text says “seven years”; 800 is the number of men, not days.

Text 10
READING TEXT
  1. William Hogarth, whose name is one of the most brilliant in the history of
  2. British painting was born in 1697 in London. At an early age, hem showed a
  3. talent for drawing. But painting was only for the rich in those days.
  4. When William was a young boy he started working for a man from whom
  5. he learnt the art of engraving. William engraved visiting cards for him. But he
  6. also worked at illustrations of books. a
  7. Later he began to study at the Art Academy of Sir James Thornhill and
  8. helped him to paint some of his pictures. Soon he fell in love with Thornhill's
  9. daughter, but the father did not allow her to marry him. So the two lovers
  10. decided to run away.
  11. At the age of 30, Hogarth painted his first pictures in oil paint. He became
  12. quite successful as a portrait painter. But his real success came when he turned
  13. to subjects that ordinary people understood and liked.
  14. In his pictures, Hogarth was “getting at” the rich of his day who were living
  15. off the backs of the people. He hoped that by his pictures he was helping to
  16. change people for the better and make them less cruel. Politicians were afraid
  17. of him because he sometimes put them into his pictures.
QUESTION 1

According to Paragraph 1, lines 1—3, William Hogarth

QUESTION 2

Hogarth learnt the art of engraving from

QUESTION 3

According to the text,

QUESTION 4

The word brilliant in line 1 is closest in meaning to

QUESTION 5

According to Paragraph 5, lines 14—17, Hogarth